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Building Connection and Resilience
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Keeping Kids Safe from Abuse
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Healing with Play Therapy
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Playful, healthful, and hopeful living for children, families, and communities.
About Us
Since 1999, we have been dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families in Palm Beach County. Our services focus on promoting positive mental health for children, families, and our community. We support thousands of children each year, preventing and healing the effects of adverse childhood experiences and trauma, while promoting resiliency and healthy relationships.
Our Approach
Every child is filled with tremendous promise – and, as a community, we have a shared obligation to foster their potential. Launched in 2016, our Fighting ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Initiative promotes a Public Health Approach to preventing and healing the effects of early adversity and trauma on children to build healthier, safer, more nurturing families, schools, and communities.
Our Services
Our therapists provide gold-standard, evidence-based early intervention and mental health treatment to support children, teenagers, and families facing everyday challenges, difficulties adjusting to loss or life's changes, and adverse experiences or trauma that impact healthy development and growth. Our work is grounded in the latest research and best practices in mental health.
Facing the Future
As we mark 25 years of service, our vision for children’s mental health is clearer and more urgent than ever — and it’s powered by champions like you who are helping shape a more resilient future.
From trauma-informed care to HOPE-filled innovation, we’re reaching more children and families, equipping professionals, and using real-time data to deliver support where it’s needed most. Together, we’re not just responding to crisis — we’re transforming what’s possible for every child.
We are proud to present the Center for Child Counseling’s 2024 Impact Report. Every milestone in these pages reflects your belief in a future we can build — together.
Read our 2024 Community Impact Report.
President & CEO
Renée Layman, MS, LMHC, President & CEO and Shannon Fox-Levine, MD, Medical Director
Board Chair
Eugenia I. Flores Millender, Ph.D., RN, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Florida State University.
Finance
Elizabeth Truong, MBA, Chief Financial Officer, with leaders from Impact the Palm Beaches.
Operations
Lauren Scirrotto, EdS, LMHC, Chief Program Officer, and Herdis Spierto, Chief Operations Officer.
Center for Child Counseling is proud to be awarded a $100,000 Impact 100 grant to launch our Mobile Unit!
This innovative, trauma-informed mobile unit will bring life-changing education and mental health services directly into high-need neighborhoods—removing barriers, expanding access, and supporting the well-being of children and families where they live, learn, and play.
Thank you, Impact 100, for helping us deliver healing and hope on wheels. Read the press release.
BUILDING HEALTHY CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
We are a nonprofit focused on the MENTAL HEALTH of children by BUILDING the capacity of CAREGIVERS and the COMMUNITY to promote resilience and well-being.
